Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else.… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've said it before - and I'll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our same-sex… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Tunstell, this is your Alpha speaking. Do as I tell you. You must regurgitate now. Regurgitation is an involuntary action. You cannot… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we say reincarnation is the conscious taking of rebirth by a Bodhisattva, or by a high being, whereas rebirth, is… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
“There may be involuntary movements or shaking of the body;” — Genevieve Lewis Paulson Copy Share Image
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought. — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“Life becomes involuntary repetitive when you suffer from short term memory loss.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people, most - than most proposals… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth - as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
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